Ripley's "Portland Hikers Museum" - Believe it or Not!

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Re: Ripley's "Portland Hikers Museum" - Believe it or Not!

Post by kepPNW » October 14th, 2015, 12:09 pm

Over a year since this thread's seen any action?

A squirrel of a different color...
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Re: Ripley's "Portland Hikers Museum" - Believe it or Not!

Post by kepPNW » February 16th, 2016, 6:26 pm

Talk about a taproot! This one's draining the hillside...
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Re: Ripley's "Portland Hikers Museum" - Believe it or Not!

Post by kepPNW » August 30th, 2016, 2:37 pm

The Ostrich Tree
For lack of a better name.
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    Along the Rampart Ridge trail, MRNP. 8/28/2016


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    Along the Rampart Ridge trail, MRNP. 8/28/2016
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Re: Ripley's "Portland Hikers Museum" - Believe it or Not!

Post by Koda » August 30th, 2016, 3:51 pm

Mt Hood Argyle tree - unsolved
Mt Hood 47 - solved
Mt Rainier Ostrich tree - unsolved....
lightweight, cheap, strong... pick 2

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Re: Ripley's "Portland Hikers Museum" - Believe it or Not!

Post by pcg » October 3rd, 2016, 8:55 pm

Mysterious hole in the Gorge.
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Re: Ripley's "Portland Hikers Museum" - Believe it or Not!

Post by Lurch » October 5th, 2016, 11:42 am

pcg wrote:Mysterious hole in the Gorge.
I think that pic is upside down... a bit difficult to tell on that one, but holes similar to that are tree molds, caused by lava flows surrounding standing trees and burning them out. to leave a hollow space where the log used to be

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